Turi (Pashtun tribe)

The Turi are a tribe of the Pashtun people, inhabiting the Kurram district, Pakistan, with a smaller number living in the Paktia province of Afghanistan.

Turi
توري‎
Armed Pashtun tribesmen of Turi tribe, in Kurram, 1857
Languages
Pashto
Religion
Shia Islam
Related ethnic groups
Khattaks · Orakzais · Bannuzais · Wazirs
and other TarKlani Pashtun tribes

History
Turi tribesmen in Kurram valley, 1910

During the Soviet–Afghan War, Sunni Mujahideen attacked the Turis. Kurram was the launching pad for Mujahideen attacks into Afghanistan and the Shias were uncooperative, preventing the Mujahideen from passing through their areas in order to fight in Afghanistan.[1][2]

More recently, the conflict with the Turi has extended to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and Haqqani network supporters in the area. As well as a religious aspect (the Taliban follow the Sunni sect, scornful of Shi'as), the Turi territory is strategically important to cross-border trade and raids into Afghanistan — added to which are Pashtun intertribal tensions.[3][4] Major battles were fought in 2007[5] and fighting continues to date.

See also

References
  1. Eamon Murphy (2012). The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism (illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 133. ISBN 9780415565264.
  2. D.P. Sharma (2005). The New Terrorism: Islamist International. APH Publishing. p. 322. ISBN 9788176487993.
  3. "Ending Kurram’s sectarian strife", The Express Tribune, Pakistan
  4. The Pakistani tribe that is taking on the Taliban, BBC
  5. Pakistan army blockades anti-Taliban tribe in Kurram, BBC
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